A team of researchers at Duke University in the US led by computer scientists Cynthia Rudin has successfully used machine learning to convert blurry portrait photos containing just a few dozen pixels into a super high-resolution images. The PULSE (Photo Upsampling via Latent Space Exploration) system works by reverse engineering the image from AI-generated high […]
The checklist covers: Los Angeles county’s department for public health has published a 10 page document outlining the protocols businesses wishing to reopen, including film and TV production companies and studios, must follow. Workplace policies and practices to protect employee health Measures to ensure physical distancing Measures to ensure infection control Communication with employees and […]
What is being touted as London’s largest TV studio is due to open in Enfield later this Summer. OMA Studios, which will be owned and operated by the Location Collective is a 139,000 sq ft former industrial depot. The Location Collective is saying that a conversion of this scale, which will increase by 53% the […]
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has signed a 10 year lease extension on its Bishopton refurbishment centre in Erskine, Renfrewshire. The company has also fitted out a further 22,443 sq ft office space, taking a total of 170,956 sq ft including 148,513 sq ft of production and storage space. The former Compaq plant, together with HPE’s other […]
The Los Angeles Times reports that California authorities are allowing film and TV production to resume in the state from this Friday, 12 June, but with some big provisos. The location and logistics of any new or restarted shoots will be subject to the approval of county public health officers, the California Department of Public […]
Five university researchers from Hong Kong and China have created an application called DeepFaceDrawing which “allows users with little training in drawing to produce high-quality images from rough or even incomplete freehand sketches”. Abstract of the team’s academic paper Recent deep image-to-image translation techniques allow fast generation of face images from freehand sketches. However, existing solutions tend […]